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2014/06/09

CARVEN RESORT 2014 COLLECTION

Carven's GuillaumeHenry traded Montmartre for Mali for Resort.
He'd been inspired, he said during a brief visit to New York, by the work of
Malick Sidibé, the Malian photographer whose 1960s photo reportage is
one of street style's midcentury predecessors. The youth of Bamako, Henry said,
"mixed European influence with their own origin," adapting as they
went. Their contribution to his collection, he added, was a more casual element:
"not as pretty or ladylike."

In keeping with the theme, Henry sketched
sixties shapes—simple sheath dresses, bell-shaped coats, all with oversized
collars—in zippy colors. Henry's materials had a
kind of make-do-and-mend scrappiness: silk shantung mixed with poly, cotton
woven with plastic. It veered a little close to the precipice of American
political incorrectness, but more to the point, it raised the question of how
appealing polyester is as a selling point.